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A Hero Twice Born by RedDeadfan100
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Jun 2025
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Harry never asked for this. After everything—the war, the loss, the battles that had stripped him of nearly everything—he just wanted to rest. To finally be with his parents, Sirius, and Remus in whatever lay beyond death.
But fate had never been kind to him.
Instead of peace, he wakes up in the distant future, reborn as Ben Shepard—the son of Jane Shepard, the infamous Butcher of Torfan, a woman known for her ruthless efficiency and battlefield prowess. Thrown into a life aboard Alliance ships, constantly relocating with his mother’s assignments, Ben finds himself struggling between the echoes of a past life and the reality of his new existence.
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- Part 3 of Harry Potter reincarnations
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For The One Who Knows My Name by notTrickstery
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Sep 2025
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Rayne Shepard dreamed of leaving Earth for good. As a kid, she thought she could be a hero amongst the stars. In some ways, the little kid was right, but being a hero wasn't all sunshine and roses. Sometimes it meant living with things too heavy to carry alone.
Liara T'Soni had a peaceful life doing exactly what she wanted to do as a young asari maiden. As fate would have it, her luck changed completely when the geth attacked, and she was rescued by a young Alliance commander and her crew.
(Formerly "Every Day After." See notes.)
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Turn Left by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Jun 2024
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Delia Shepard, traumatized and addicted to red sand after Torfan, has found a quiet-- albeit boring-- life on the Citadel as a Drugs and Trafficking Officer. When one of her informants is found dead in an alley, she's forced to team up with Detective Garrus Vakarian: an unfeeling, stiff, full of himself douche. But as they work together, they find that a dead mole is the least of their issues. Trouble is brewing, enemies are at every turn. And to top it all off, Shepard has sworn off friendships completely after the Alliance. So why can she barely function without Vakarian?
In another dark corner of the Citadel, Archangel has decided to sign up for an anonymous sex club. What's the worst that can happen? He's matched with a human he knows only as the Commander, someone who he can demand to obey his every rule and whim. As their meetings progress, Archangel finds himself getting closer and closer to the Commander. Can lust turn into something more substantial?
Essentially, the plot of Mass Effect if Shepard was not on Eden Prime, mixed with the love child of You've Got Mail and Fifty Shades of Grey.
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- Part 1 of Out of Eden Series
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- English
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- 41/41
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Out of Eden Series by lilmissnatcat24
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
26 Jul 2025
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"A lesser mind would have been destroyed."
But a lesser mind had been destroyed, decimated. Delia Shepard was nothing but a shell after Torfan, she was a body with no real purpose. That was, of course, until she found a dead salarian in an alleyway."At the end of the day, I don't think I'm a very good turian."
Garrus didn't want those words to be true. He wanted to be loyal. He wanted to be dedicated, contrite, cold, calculating. He wanted to be brave and decisive and individualistic. But he was none of those things-- not at least, without her.Shepard and Garrus, detective AU. Events of Mass Effect had Shepard not been on Eden Prime.
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- 391,596
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Mass Effect: Widowmaker by whimperkingwhimper
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 May 2025
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Stopping a meteor from crashing into Terra Nova is complicated enough without a furious batarian woman ending up as your prisoner.
For the Butcher of Torfan, batarians are a common enemy. However, this one may prove to be much, much more.
Ruthless Paragon Shepard x Original Batarian Girl
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Harry Potter reincarnations by RedDeadfan100
Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Mass Effect Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, The Walking Dead (Comics), The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game), The Walking Dead (TV)
21 Jul 2025
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If it’s about Torfan - and of course it’s about Torfan, everything always comes back to Torfan - then she wants it to be on her terms. She’s had enough of people inventing their own truth.
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When an N7 reconnaissance mission goes wrong, its operators captured by a notorious batarian warlord, the Alliance calls in Commander Shepard. As an augmented human (not "transhuman," thank you very much!), a phenomenal hacker, and the best damn infiltrator this side of the galaxy, she's clearly the best choice.
It'll be in and out. Kill all the slavers, retrieve the N-team, leave. Easy.
What could possibly go wrong?
AKA: The last N7 mission Shepard gets to do before she's reassigned as Staff Commander of the SSV Normandy SR-1, goes to Eden Prime, and finds out the galaxy is a lot more fucked-up than she'd even imagined. Featuring batarians, more batarians, a fellow N7, and yet another batarian but this one's...different.
Prequel to Mass Effect 1.
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- Part 1 of Phasma Ex Machina
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Shepard left her family behind on Mindoir. Really, she did. Any memories resurfaced or people reminding her of them are purely coincidental. She is the model picture of mental health! A beacon of a soldier for the alliance!
If only that whole dance and song worked on Liara.
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- Part 2 of The Ones Left Alive
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A WIP long fic exploring my headcanon of Eris, Full Metal Renegade Bitch.
Having defeated a second Reaper, this time on Rannoch, Eris had no trouble confronting the finger in her face steadily. “Your accusations are demonstrably false.”
With the tone of a man tired of his wife’s haughty attitude, particularly now, after Tali - and the entire Quarian races - avoidable deaths, he turned to Thane. “Feel free to jump in at any point whilst she lies.”
But he hummed distractedly in response and continued tapping onto his data pad.
She sighed wretchedly. “Is that what I’m doing?”
Throughout her absurd life, a dark wind rose from somewhere deep in the future, across years still to come, and they blew more fiercely than ever as she made decisions that would shape the Galaxy long beyond the Reaper's existence.
Hating trying to explain, she shut up and smoked her cigarette whilst Kaidan frowned at her, gazing back at him sadly across a gulf of lost years and misunderstandings.
When she comes home some five years later, she is so far removed from the woman she was that nobody quite knows what to do.
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- Part 16 of Red Flags and Long Nights
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I didn't expect to ship Thane and Kaidan but here I am lmao
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Shakarian One Shots by bluerose5
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
19 Jul 2021
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Park Jimin, known as the favourite nerd of the cold hearted bully Min Yoongi but what's so mysterious about Jimin is the unmatched beauty underneath his black, thick mask&sunglasses and if you may ask why did Yoongi became so ruthless? That's for you to find out what happened to his unforgettable love...
'Chim Chim'
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Eric Shepard: Soldier/Earthborn/Ruthless.
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HOW DID I NOT BOOKMARK THIS LIKE THREE YEARS AGO OR WHATEVER ERIC IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES
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Sacrifice and Redemption by Jetstorm
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon's Dogma, GreedFall (Video Game), Mass Effect Trilogy
18 Aug 2025
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4 FemSheps, all various types of biotics, all survivors of the Reaper War, all saw the destruction of Earth in their particular alternate universe, all infected with Reaper nanites are transported to various planets that have humans still in preindustrial development and various types of magic. Each of the 4 Shepards look for redemption amongst sacrifice on these worlds
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After Torfan, everyone starts looking at Hannah Shepard a little differently--but no one more than Hannah herself.
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- English
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- 1/1
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After the massacre on Torfan, Commander Eric Shepard is dishonorably discharged from the Alliance military. His reputation in shambles and his career destroyed, Eric does what he does best: He starts over.
Years later, he has a new crew, a new ship, and is living his best life in the Traverse, raiding private vessels and small outposts.
Until a simple cash grab turns out to be a galaxy wide threat and Shepard finds himself working with Alliance golden boy and first human Spectre Kaidan Alenko.
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One-shots and random ficlets in my Love and War Games series (Eric Shepard - Soldier/Earthborn/Ruthless) that don't fit into the main 'verse. Not always canon, and in no partiular order (though I'll try my best).
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"I keep on trying to tell myself that we're doing the right thing. I don't believe me yet." Canon compliant, ft. Shepard, Vakarian, & co.
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- Part 1 of Crucible
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Commander Shepard has been a household name since Torfan. She’s untouchable by her own means, a light of potential soaring towards near godhood the longer she stays in the limelight. But it takes her saving the Citadel before anyone worth a damn decides to ask who Shepard has if she’s untouchable. Who bats for her when the galaxy turns its back on her.
The answer’s simple— the same man stubborn enough to see the Butcher of Torfan and ask her if all the death was worth it. Anderson never did have a good sense of danger.
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Shepard and Anderson through the years, right up until the very end.
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- Part 5 of The Ones Left Alive
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Anderson and shepard
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In which Shepard and Garrus attempt to take a vacation, thwart a hijacking, commandeer a security scooter, destroy most of a luxury liner, pick up a baby krogan, and have to explain themselves.
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- English
- Words:
- 24
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- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 3
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- 3
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- 248
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